Visions of an Unseen World
Visions of an Unseen World

Author: Sasha Handley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-09-30

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1317315251

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A study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This work examines a variety of mediums: ballads and chapbooks, newspapers, sermons, medical treatises and scientific journals, novels and plays. It relates the telling of ghost stories to changes associated with the Enlightenment.

Before Religion
Before Religion

Author: Brent Nongbri

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-01-22

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0300154178

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Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as ancient religion. Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures.

Watching the English
Watching the English

Author: Kate Fox

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey

Published: 2014-07-08

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1857889177

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Updated, with new research and over 100 revisions Ten years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This updated and revised edition of Watching the English - which over the last decade has become the unofficial guidebook to the English national character - features new and fresh insights on the unwritten rules and foibles of "squaddies," bikers, horse-riders, and more. Fox revisits a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and bizarre codes of behavior. She demystifies the peculiar cultural rules that baffle us: the rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid pantomime rule. Class anxiety tests. The roots of English self-mockery and many more. An international bestseller, Watching the English is a biting, affectionate, insightful and often hilarious look at the English and their society.

Book of the Dead
Book of the Dead

Author: Foy Scalf

Publisher: Oriental Institute Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781614910381

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Discover how the ancient Egyptians controlled their immortal destiny! This book, edited by Foy Scalf, explores what the Book of the Dead was believed to do, how it worked, how it was made, and what happened to it.

The Training of the Twelve
The Training of the Twelve

Author: Alexander Balmain Bruce

Publisher:

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781849025539

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A.B. Bruce's work The Training of the Twelve shows the methods Jesus used to lead his disciples and teach them to spread His Word. Learn how Jesus chose and trained his disciples, how and what he taught them about evangelism and prayer, and the nature of true holiness.